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Lime Blue

Chilades lajus

Wet-season form Male has a bluish-purple upperside. Fore wing has base and basal half of costa flushed with pale blue; costa and termen edged by a slender dark brownish-block even line, beyond which along the termen the cilia are brown, at base, white outwardly. Hind wing: costa somewhat broadly dusky black; a slender black conspicuous anticiliary line, beyond which the cilia are white traversed medially by a brown line; dorsum broadly pale brown, two subterminal pale-bordered black spots in interspace 1, and one similar spot in interspace 2, often obsolescent and barely indicated.

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Regional Names
  • Malayalam:
    നാരകനീലി
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Taxanomy

LEPIDOPTERA
LYCAENIDAE
Chilades lajus

Quick Facts
  • Caterpillar is attended by ants. Sugary fluid secreted from a gland on the back of the caterpillar is the incentive for the ants to protect the caterpillar.
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